as in dripped
to flow forth slowly through small openings
water seeping through the basement walls
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Recent Examples of seeped
Some images seeped out into more traditional media.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Small didn't count on the bed, falling through the floor, along with Florence's torso preserved in the water of Lake Ossipee that had seeped into their basement.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
The hatred that has seeped into our culture must stop.
—Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Signs Your Child May Be Influenced This hypermasculine ideal has seeped into our mainstream culture to the point that muscle building goals are common among boys.
—Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
What once lived at the extremes has now seeped into everyday life.
—Jonathan Alpert, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Cancel culture has seeped into the Hottest Actors consideration.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
That sense of fraudulence seeped into other areas of her life, beyond pageantry.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
That subtle heating melted ices like water and carbon dioxide, releasing fluids that seeped through the rock.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Small didn't count on the bed, falling through the floor, along with Florence's torso preserved in the water of Lake Ossipee that had seeped into their basement.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
The hatred that has seeped into our culture must stop.
—Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Signs Your Child May Be Influenced This hypermasculine ideal has seeped into our mainstream culture to the point that muscle building goals are common among boys.
—Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
What once lived at the extremes has now seeped into everyday life.
—Jonathan Alpert, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Cancel culture has seeped into the Hottest Actors consideration.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
That sense of fraudulence seeped into other areas of her life, beyond pageantry.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
That subtle heating melted ices like water and carbon dioxide, releasing fluids that seeped through the rock.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seeped
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Tyler Andrew Riddle dripped with charisma and smarts.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Minneapolis community mourns after deadly shooting Tears dripped down cheeks as mourners wrote messages at a memorial Wednesday following a deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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Shortly after Dante's Peak was Volcano, which wondered what would happen if lava oozed through downtown Los Angeles.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Gas flow also affects stellar initial masses In another study, published in July 2025, astrophysicist Ke-Jung Chen led a research group at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics using a detailed computer simulation that modeled how gas in the early universe may have flowed.—
Luke Keller,
Space.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Waterfalls of tequila flowed from enough bottles to lose count, including those in Aguayo’s group.—
Evan Webeck,
Mercury News,
7 Sep. 2025
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Last summer, Marc Jacobs debuted his fall 2024 collection, which exuded joy and fun.—
Emily Mercer,
Footwear News,
4 Sep. 2025
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And with his Week 1 visit to the lectern, Verse exuded his unique combination of brash showman and zen worker bee.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
4 Sep. 2025
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Still, the discussions have percolated in recent days among top officials in the Justice Department, including in the Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal advice to all executive branch agencies.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
4 Sep. 2025
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The phrase was on T-shirts all over the stadium as Irish fans mocked Miami’s bad-guy image that percolated on swagger, on battle fatigues worn on road trips.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Seeped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seeped. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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